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Rapid-Response Mode VLT/UVES Spectroscopy of GRB 060418 A&A 468, 83–96 (2007) Astronomy DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20066780 & c ESO 2007 Astrophysics Rapid-response mode VLT/UVES spectroscopy of GRB 060418 Conclusive evidence for UV pumping from the time evolution of Fe II and Ni II excited- and metastable-level populations P. M. Vreeswijk1,2, C. Ledoux1, A. Smette1, S. L. Ellison3, A. O. Jaunsen4,M.I.Andersen5,A.S.Fruchter6, J. P. U. Fynbo7, J. Hjorth7,A.Kaufer1, P. Møller8, P. Petitjean9,10,S.Savaglio11, and R. A. M. J. Wijers12 1 European Southern Observatory, Alonso de Córdova 3107, Casilla 19001, Santiago 19, Chile e-mail: [email protected] 2 Departamento de Astronomía, Universidad de Chile, Casilla 36-D, Santiago, Chile 3 Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada 4 Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Oslo, PO Box 1029 Blindern, 0315 Oslo, Norway 5 Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam, An der Sternwarte 16, 14482 Potsdam, Germany 6 Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA 7 Dark Cosmology Centre, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark 8 European Southern Observatory, Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 2, 85748 Garching bei München, Germany 9 Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris – UMR 7095 CNRS & Université Pierre et Marie Curie, 98bis Boulevard Arago, 75014 Paris, France 10 LERMA, Observatoire de Paris, 61 Avenue de l’Observatoire, 75014 Paris, France 11 Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik, Giessenbachstrasse, 85748 Garching bei München, Germany 12 Astronomical Institute “Anton Pannekoek”, University of Amsterdam & Center for High Energy Astrophysics, Kruislaan 403, 1098 SJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands Received 20 November 2006 / Accepted 11 March 2007 ABSTRACT We present high-resolution spectroscopic observations of GRB 060418, obtained with VLT/UVES. These observations were triggered using the VLT Rapid-Response Mode (RRM), which allows for automated observations of transient phenomena, without any human intervention. This resulted in the first UVES exposure of GRB 060418 to be started only 10 min after the initial Swift satellite trigger. A sequence of spectra covering 330−670 nm were acquired at 11, 16, 25, 41 and 71 minutes (mid-exposure) after the trigger, with a resolving power of 7 km s−1, and a signal-to-noise ratio of 10−15. This time-series clearly shows evidence for time variability of 6 6 6 6 4 allowed transitions involving Fe II fine-structure levels ( D7/2, D5/2, D3/2,and D1/2), and metastable levels of both Fe II ( F9/2 4 4 and D7/2)andNiII(F9/2), at the host-galaxy redshift z = 1.490. This is the first report of absorption lines arising from metastable levels of Fe II and Ni II along any GRB sightline. We model the observed evolution of the level populations with three different excitation mechanisms: collisions, excitation by infra-red photons, and fluorescence following excitation by ultraviolet photons. Our data allow us to reject the collisional and IR excitation scenarios with high confidence. The UV pumping model, in which the GRB afterglow UV photons excite a cloud of atoms with a column density N, distance d, and Doppler broadening parameter b, = +0.06 = ± = ± = provides an excellent fit, with best-fit values: log N(Fe II) 14.75−0.04,logN(Ni II) 13.84 0.02, d 1.7 0.2 kpc, and b 25 ± 3kms−1. The success of our UV pumping modeling implies that no significant amount of Fe II or Ni II is present at distances smaller than ∼1.7 kpc, most likely because it is ionized by the GRB X-ray/UV flash. Because neutral hydrogen is more easily ionized than Fe II and Ni II, this minimum distance also applies to any H I present. Therefore the majority of very large H I column densities typically observed along GRB sightlines may not be located in the immediate environment of the GRB. The UV pumping fit also = − +0.8 constrains two GRB afterglow parameters: the spectral slope, β 0.5−1.0, and the total rest-frame UV flux that irradiated the cloud since the GRB trigger, constraining the magnitude of a possible UV flash. Key words. gamma rays: bursts – galaxies: abundances – galaxies: ISM – galaxies: distances and redshifts – galaxies: quasars: absorption lines 1. Introduction place in a star-forming region. As the GRB radiation ionizes the atoms in the environment, the neutral hydrogen and metal The influence of a γ-ray burst (GRB) explosion on its envi- column densities in the vicinity of the explosion are expected ronment has been predicted to manifest itself in various ways. to evolve with time (Perna & Loeb 1998; Vreeswijk et al. Strong observational evidence (Galama et al. 1998; Stanek 2001; Mirabal et al. 2002). Ultra-violet (UV) photons will not et al. 2003; Hjorth et al. 2003) indicates that at least some only photo-dissociate and photo-ionize any nearby molecular GRB progenitors are massive stars (Woosley 1993; MacFadyen hydrogen, but also quickly excite H2 at larger distances to its & Woosley 1999), and therefore the explosion is likely to take vibrationally excited metastable levels, which can be observed Based on observations collected at the European Southern in absorption (Draine & Hao 2002). Finally, dust grains can be Observatory, Chile; proposal no. 77.D-0661. destroyed up to tens of parsecs away (Waxman & Draine 2000; Article published by EDP Sciences and available at http://www.aanda.org or http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20066780 84 P. M. Vreeswijk et al.: Rapid-response Mode VLT/UVES spectroscopy of GRB 060418 Fruchter et al. 2001; Draine & Hao 2002; Perna & Lazzati 2002; providing a 3 error circle localization. Observations with the Perna et al. 2003). Detection of these time-dependent processes, Swift X-Ray Telescope (XRT) resulted in a 5 position about one with timescales ranging from seconds to days in the observer’s minute later (Falcone et al. 2006b), which triggered our desk- frame, would not only provide direct information on the phys- top computer to activate a VLT-RRM request for observations ical conditions of the interstellar medium (ISM) surrounding with the Ultra-violet and Visual Echelle Spectrograph (UVES). the GRB, but would also constrain the properties of the emit- This was received by the VLT’s unit telescope Kueyen at Cerro ted GRB flux before it is attenuated by foreground absorbers Paranal at 3:08:12 UT. The on-going service mode exposure was in the host galaxy and in intervening gas clouds. In the X-ray, ended immediately, and the telescope was pointed to the XRT evidence has been found for a time-variable H I column den- location, all automatically. Several minutes later, the night as- sity (Starling et al. 2005; Campana et al. 2007), presumably tronomers Stefano Bagnulo and Stan Stefl identified the GRB af- due to the ionization of the nearby neutral gas. In the opti- terglow, aligned the UVES slit on top of it, and started the re- cal, none of these processes have been observed until recently, quested observations at 3:16 UT (i.e. 10 min after the Swift γ-ray when Dessauges-Zavadsky et al. (2006) reported a ∼3σ vari- detection). This represents the fastest spectral follow-up of any 6 1 ability detection of Fe II D7/2 λ2396 , observed at two epochs GRB by an optical facility (until the RRM VLT/UVES observa- roughly 16 h apart. Such observations are technically very chal- tions of GRB 060607, also triggered by our team, which were lenging because high-resolution spectroscopy combined with the started at a mere 7.5 min after the GRB; Ledoux et al. 2006). A rapidly decaying afterglow flux requires immediate follow-up series of exposures with increasing integration times (3, 5, 10, with 8−10 m class telescopes. 20, and 40 min, respectively) was performed with a slit width The Swift satellite, launched in November 2004, has per- of 1, yielding spectra covering the 330−670 nm wavelength mitted a revolution in rapid spectroscopic follow-up observa- range at a resolving power of R =∆λ/λ ∼ 43 000, correspond- tions, providing accurate (5) positions for the majority of GRBs ingto7kms−1 full width at half maximum. These observations within a few minutes of the GRB trigger. Numerous robotic were followed by a 80-min exposure in a different instrument imaging telescopes react impressively fast (within 10 s) to Swift configuration, but with the same slit width, extending the wave- triggers. As for spectroscopic observations, a number of target- length coverage to the red up to 950 nm. The data were reduced of-opportunity programs at most major observational facilities with a custom version of the UVES pipeline (Ballester et al. are regularly yielding follow-up observations of the GRB af- 2000), flux-calibrated using the standard response curves3 and terglow at typically an hour after the Swift alert. However, converted to a heliocentric vacuum wavelength scale. The log of most of these programs require significant human coordination the observations is shown in Table 1. between the science team and telescope personnel/observers. At the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT; consisting of four unit telescopes of 8.2 m 3. Ground-state absorption lines from the host each), a Rapid Response Mode (RRM) has been commissioned galaxy of GRB 060418 to provide prompt follow-up of transient phenomena, such as 2 The spectra reveal four strong absorption-line systems at red- GRBs. The design of this system allows for completely au- shifts z = 0.603, 0.656, 1.107, and 1.490. In what follows, we tomatic VLT observations without any human intervention ex- focus on the highest-redshift absorption-line system at zabs = cept for the placement of the spectrograph entrance slit on the 1.490, which corresponds to the redshift of the GRB as shown GRB afterglow.
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